Find the barriers that keep people from using the website.
An accessibility audit helps a small business identify technical, design, and content barriers across important customer journeys. STANDBY Local combines automated checks with manual review of keyboard use, structure, focus, forms, contrast, responsive behavior, and understandable interaction, then turns findings into prioritized remediation work.
Available to small businesses in Charlottesville, Central Virginia, and qualified remote engagements.
An automated scan cannot determine whether a person can complete the journey.
Tools can detect useful signals, but they miss context, reading order, meaningful labels, keyboard logic, error recovery, and whether a process makes sense. We review representative pages and interactions manually and state the scope and limits of the audit clearly.
What success looks like
- Clear ownership and approved next actions
- Fewer preventable delays and dropped handoffs
- Accurate information across connected systems
- Human review for exceptions and high-risk decisions
- Measurement tied to qualified demand and completion
What the service can include.
The final scope is defined around your current tools, business rules, access, risk, budget, and the smallest complete result worth implementing.
Scope and page sampling
Identify priority templates, components, forms, navigation, content types, customer journeys, supported browsers, and the audit standard or reference requested.
Automated and code review
Use multiple signals to identify markup, naming, contrast, heading, language, image, form, landmark, and other detectable concerns.
Manual interaction testing
Review keyboard access, focus order and visibility, menus, dialogs, forms, errors, zoom, reflow, motion, media, and responsive behavior.
Content and structure review
Evaluate headings, link purpose, labels, instructions, alternative text, tables, plain-language needs, and consistency across representative content.
Prioritized findings
Document the affected page or component, barrier, evidence, impact, reference, severity, repetition, and practical remediation guidance.
Remediation and retesting
Fix approved issues within STANDBY's implementation scope, retest changed journeys, and refer specialist or legal questions to qualified professionals.
A controlled path from problem to working system.
Define the audit boundary
Agree on pages, templates, functions, technologies, reference standard, evidence format, remediation scope, and known exclusions.
Test representative journeys
Combine automated checks, code inspection, keyboard review, responsive testing, content review, and practical task completion.
Prioritize the barriers
Group repeated component issues, distinguish severity from effort, and sequence remediation around customer impact and technical dependencies.
Fix and retest
Implement approved corrections, verify affected patterns and journeys, document remaining limits, and establish ongoing content practices.
Good reasons to start this project.
- Small businesses planning a website redesign or major content update
- Sites with forms, navigation, booking, portals, or interactive components
- Teams that have relied only on a free automated scan
- Owners prepared to prioritize inclusive design and ongoing content practices
What we will not pretend to solve.
- A request for a legal opinion, certification, or guarantee of compliance
- A full conformance claim based on a limited sample or automated scan
- Specialist assistive-technology or user research beyond the agreed scope without qualified partners
- Treating an accessibility overlay as a substitute for fixing underlying barriers
Questions buyers ask before committing.
What is included in a website accessibility audit?
Scope can include automated checks, code review, keyboard testing, focus, headings, landmarks, contrast, zoom and reflow, images, links, forms, errors, navigation, motion, media, responsive behavior, prioritized findings, and remediation guidance.
Is an automated accessibility scan enough?
No. Automated tools can identify some issues but cannot fully evaluate context, keyboard journeys, meaningful labels, reading order, interaction behavior, error recovery, or whether a person can complete a task.
Does an accessibility audit guarantee ADA or WCAG compliance?
No. STANDBY provides technical and usability findings within a defined scope, not legal advice, certification, or a guarantee of compliance. Legal interpretations and formal conformance needs should involve qualified counsel and accessibility specialists.
Can STANDBY fix the issues found in the audit?
Often, for websites and components we can safely edit. Remediation is scoped separately based on platform access, issue volume, technical ownership, content responsibility, third-party tools, and any specialist testing required.
Continue through the STANDBY system.
Turn accessibility findings into practical website improvements.
Start with a free 15-minute conversation. If the project needs deeper process, technical, or investment planning, STANDBY may recommend the paid Growth & Operations Blueprint before implementation.